Thanks so much for the tutorial. I'll be sure to use it. The pixel was actually meant to be some random creature but I think I went a little to far on the design.

Definitely looks like some soft tool was used, or else you saved individual frames as jpegs.
Never use jpeg for pixel art! png or gif are what you need. You can also save working stages as bmp or tiff so you don't lose your work in case of mistake ;)

However the main problem with this piece is readability. I'm not sure at all what I'm looking at.

Here's a good place to start, if you haven't visited it yet ;)

 lol should I just delete it then? I don't know if I can fix it with my type of program. ;o

Welcome to Pixeljoint.

You have all kinds of artifacts in the BG that needs editing,k. Use the forum for help, c+c or feedback if needed.